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<blockquote data-quote="Apophenia" data-source="post: 56205" data-attributes="member: 728">In another topic, Boogey asked &quot;for any draught of British bomber project Short S.36 Super Stirling on the Air Ministry specification No B.8/41. It would be also fine to look at the Short S.34 Modified Stirling.&quot;British Secret Projects has a 3-view drawing of the Short S.36 'Super Stirling' on pg. 116. The big changes were Centaurus instead of Hercules, a lengthened fuselage (101'), increased span (135.9'), and a 0.5&quot;-based armament (incl. 4 in dorsal turret).The S.36 looks very much like the enlarged Stirling that it was. One noticable difference is the swept-up rear fuselage.BSP also mentions the Short S.34 (to B.1/39) but there is no illustrations.BSP says that the S.34 came in two variants. One was Hercules-engined and featured a Stirling-like single fin. A Griffon-powered version would have twin vertical tails.Both were based on the Stirling but featured the required ventral and dorsal quad 20mm turrets. In the case of the Hercules version, both turrets were faired into the wing. The ventral turret of the Griffon version would protrude.S.34 dimensions were to be: span 113.8', length 93.9', wing area 1770 sq ft.Also worth mentioning is the rather handsome Shorts P.13/36 of which a model photo is shown. This looks like a slightly scaled-down, twin Vulture Stirling (page 103).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Apophenia, post: 56205, member: 728"] In another topic, Boogey asked "for any draught of British bomber project Short S.36 Super Stirling on the Air Ministry specification No B.8/41. It would be also fine to look at the Short S.34 Modified Stirling." British Secret Projects has a 3-view drawing of the Short S.36 'Super Stirling' on pg. 116. The big changes were Centaurus instead of Hercules, a lengthened fuselage (101'), increased span (135.9'), and a 0.5"-based armament (incl. 4 in dorsal turret). The S.36 looks very much like the enlarged Stirling that it was. One noticable difference is the swept-up rear fuselage. BSP also mentions the Short S.34 (to B.1/39) but there is no illustrations. BSP says that the S.34 came in two variants. One was Hercules-engined and featured a Stirling-like single fin. A Griffon-powered version would have twin vertical tails. Both were based on the Stirling but featured the required ventral and dorsal quad 20mm turrets. In the case of the Hercules version, both turrets were faired into the wing. The ventral turret of the Griffon version would protrude. S.34 dimensions were to be: span 113.8', length 93.9', wing area 1770 sq ft. Also worth mentioning is the rather handsome Shorts P.13/36 of which a model photo is shown. This looks like a slightly scaled-down, twin Vulture Stirling (page 103). [/QUOTE]

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